If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
JERRY GARCIAThe world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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Listening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.
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See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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